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HOUSTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials are turning over every rock this morning in an intense manhunt for the man they say gunned down a sheriff's deputy in suburban Houston. Officials say 47-year-old Deputy Darren Goforth was pumping gas into his patrol vehicle when he was shot multiple times and killed by a man approached him from behind.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Waterborne Legionnaires' disease has hospitalized one inmate is suspected of sickening more than two dozen others at California's oldest state prison. Officials, meanwhile, are scrambling to provide safe drinking water to thousands of other inmates at San Quentin. Drinking water is still being brought in as health officials tried to find the cause of the contamination. In Illinois, two residents of a veterans' home died of the disease, prompting an investigation there.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The national hurricane center predicts Tropical Storm Erika will weaken today or even dissipate, making it a possibility that no watches or warnings will be required for Florida. But Florida officials are still warning residents to prepare for intense rain. The storm killed at least 20 people on the Caribbean island of Dominica.
PARIS (AP) — It's billed as an emergency meeting to rethink European train safety but any changes are likely to remain relatively modest to avoid choking the continental train system, which Europeans rely upon heavily. European security and transport chiefs meeting in Paris are considering baggage scans, identity checks and more armed guards after American passengers thwarted an Islamic extremist attack.
VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) — A recovery effort is in in Victoria Harbor after a barge tipped as it was being loaded, dumping as many as 20 vehicles into the water. British Columbia's Ministry of Environment says booms are in the water to contain any pollution and the ministry says the coast guard, Transport Canada, police, fire and harbor master are on scene.
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